Roots & Wings Classes - Fall 2020
Roots & Wings is a farm-based drop off program for children between the ages of 5 and 13.
The classes are currently capped at ten children and there will be a professional lead teacher and a teacher's assistant in each class.
Sanitation and social distancing will be practiced and masks are required.
Students must enrolled for a programmatic block, which are currently four weeks each, September and then October. Tuition is $100 per child per class in each block.
There is a $50 non-refundable registration fee per family. The registration website link is www.surveymonkey.com/r/RWfall2020.
The following is our fall schedule, please note the ages for each class:
The classes are currently capped at ten children and there will be a professional lead teacher and a teacher's assistant in each class.
Sanitation and social distancing will be practiced and masks are required.
Students must enrolled for a programmatic block, which are currently four weeks each, September and then October. Tuition is $100 per child per class in each block.
There is a $50 non-refundable registration fee per family. The registration website link is www.surveymonkey.com/r/RWfall2020.
The following is our fall schedule, please note the ages for each class:
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
10 to 11:30 |
Farm & Forest Seedlings (5&6 year olds) |
Spanish Explorations (7+ year olds) |
Farm & Forest Friends (7+ year olds) |
Farm & Forest Seedlings (5&6 year olds) |
1:00 to 2:30 |
Farm & Forest Seedlings (5&6 year olds) |
Art in Nature (7+ year olds) |
Farm & Forest Friends (7+ year olds) |
Farm & Forest Seedlings (5&6 year olds) |
3:00 to 4:30 |
Art in Nature (5+ year olds) |
Art in Nature (9+ year olds) |
Naturalist Photography (10+ year olds) |
Animal Science (10+ year olds) |
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Farm & Forest Seedlings (5&6 year olds) - This class will welcome our youngest friends (5 and 6 years old) to explore the farm in a creative, playful, and fun way. Over the course of the semester we will discover science, literacy, math, and art topics, all through exploration of nature. There will be many opportunities for child-directed learning and working together through farm care, gardening, and of course play!
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Art in Nature - In this class students will build confidence and awareness about ourselves, others and the world around us in a way not normally taught in an art class for this age group. We will take nature and zoom in! See all the colors in what seems only one color, see the patterns and see the beauty in things we may have not known how to look for before. Big projects will focus on adding artistic elements to the children's area of the farm, like decorative signs and garden sculptures.
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Spanish Explorations - We will discover fun ways to learn a new language through movement, playing in nature, creativity, and songs. Come and explore the farm while learning vocabulary and practicing common expressions in Spanish. We will also write a simple story about a character that you will create by using your imagination and creative powers. We will practice some yoga movements, dance and sing songs in Spanish. ¡Te esperamos!
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Farm & Forest Friends (7+) - Participants will learn how to cultivate nature observation, awareness and ancestral skills as they develop a passion to learn about how the world around them works and how they can use their unique interests and abilities to help make it a better place. This fall we will focus on plant identification and foraging. For this class students will need a sketching notebook, regular and colored pencils, and a pencil sharpener.
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Naturalist Photography (10+) - Students will bring their own smart device that can take pictures (iPad, iPhone, etc.) and go on explorations with the teacher, who is a professional photographer, to develop their creative eye for how to compose photographs of the world around them. Photos taken of plants, animals or fungi will be uploaded into the iNaturalist app's project for Freetown Farm to help the students develop identification skills and to build out the database of the other life we share this place with.
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Animal Care (10+) - Children will get up close and personal with Freetown Farm's chicken flock! They will learn chicken care basics, how to assess common health ailments, how chickens regulate body temperature and all about egg production! This class will include hands on time with the chickens, written work and mini projects. For this class, children will need regular and colored pencils (pre sharpened please), a small sketchbook (5x7), an eraser, a pair of scissors and a glue stick.
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